The Second Annual High Performance Fortran User Group (`HUG') meeting
will be held on 25 - 26 June 1998 at the Fundacao Dr. Antonio Cupertino
de Miranda in Porto, Portugal. This successor meeting to the 1997 HUG
meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, provides an opportunity for users
of HPF to meet each other, share ideas and experiences, and obtain
up-to-date information on current HPF implementations and future plans.

This meeting will be held in conjunction with VECPAR'98, a
multidisciplinary conference covering a range of topics in parallel
and distributed computing, which will take place on 21 - 23 June at
the same venue. An HPF tutorial will be offered on 20 June as part
of the VECPAR tutorial program. On the day between the VECPAR and HUG
meetings, 24 June, Porto holds its annual festival, and attendees will
be free to participate in the festivities.

Abstracts may contain up to 300 words, plus the title and authors'
names and addresses. They should be in standard HTML 2.0 format and
may contain links to relevant further information or documentation if
this is available. Alternatively, and less desirably, abstracts may
be submitted in plain text, in which case we will convert the selected
ones to HTML.

Abstracts must be submitted electronically by **16 March 1998** to:

hug98@vcpc.univie.ac.at

Authors will be notified of acceptance by 31 March 1998. The selected
abstracts will be posted on the Web prior to the conference.

Fees are in Austrian Schillings (ATS). The conference fee includes a
welcome reception, conference dinner and morning and afternoon
refreshments. Extra conference dinner tickets are available at 400 ATS
each. Delegates may register for only the HPF tutorial or only the
HUG'98 conference if desired.

The registration form can be downloaded from the HUG'98 Web page or
will be sent by email on request. It must be submitted by 31 May to
qualify for the early registration fee.

Porto is an attractive city in northern Portugal. It is particularly
renowned for its historic centre, recently classified by UNESCO as a
world heritage. 24 June is the date of Porto's annual festival, and
attendees are encouraged to come in time to take part in the
festivities.
EXPO '98 is also being held in Lisbon, Portugal, during the time frame
of this event.